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La Salle des Enchères Saint-Quentin
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(Paris Municipality) Auguste Bruno Braquehais (1823–1875)
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154
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(Paris Municipality) Auguste Bruno Braquehais (1823–1875)
See original version (French)
Estimate €50 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
(Paris Municipality) Auguste Bruno Braquehais (1823–1875)
Ruins of Paris, albumen print, mounted on card, photographer’s dry stamp, titled in pencil, provenance: Hans Furstenberg (Lugt-3615), stamp on the reverse of the card (27/36cm.), and Dr Louis Bretonniere.
Third view of the statue of Napoleon lying on the ground, 16/21 cm.
Deaf and mute from birth, he initially specialised in lithography whilst studying at the Royal Institute for the Deaf and Mute in Paris. He subsequently took up photography with his in-laws and specialised in paper prints; he also used the carbon print process. He took thousands of photographs during the Paris Commune, including images of ruined buildings and portraits of troops in action. (Durand-I-156)
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